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[dpdk-dev,v3,12/14] doc: update mlx5 guide on tunnel offloading

Message ID 20180413112023.106420-13-xuemingl@mellanox.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Shahaf Shuler
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Xueming Li April 13, 2018, 11:20 a.m. UTC 
  Remove tunnel limitations, add new hardware tunnel offload features.

Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@mellanox.com>
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 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Nélio Laranjeiro April 13, 2018, 1:38 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 07:20:21PM +0800, Xueming Li wrote:
> Remove tunnel limitations, add new hardware tunnel offload features.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@mellanox.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> index b1bab2ce2..c256f85f3 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -100,12 +100,12 @@ Features
>  - RX interrupts.
>  - Statistics query including Basic, Extended and per queue.
>  - Rx HW timestamp.
> +- Tunnel types: VXLAN, L3 VXLAN, VXLAN-GPE, GRE, MPLS-in-GRE, MPLS-in-UDP.
> +- Tunnel HW offloads: packet type, inner/outer RSS, IP and UDP checksum verification.
>  
>  Limitations
>  -----------
>  
> -- Inner RSS for VXLAN frames is not supported yet.
> -- Hardware checksum RX offloads for VXLAN inner header are not supported yet.
>  - For secondary process:
>  
>    - Forked secondary process not supported.
> -- 
> 2.13.3
 
As discussed in [1], also add a new entry in the features list,

Thanks,

[1] https://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-April/096736.html
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index b1bab2ce2..c256f85f3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -100,12 +100,12 @@  Features
 - RX interrupts.
 - Statistics query including Basic, Extended and per queue.
 - Rx HW timestamp.
+- Tunnel types: VXLAN, L3 VXLAN, VXLAN-GPE, GRE, MPLS-in-GRE, MPLS-in-UDP.
+- Tunnel HW offloads: packet type, inner/outer RSS, IP and UDP checksum verification.
 
 Limitations
 -----------
 
-- Inner RSS for VXLAN frames is not supported yet.
-- Hardware checksum RX offloads for VXLAN inner header are not supported yet.
 - For secondary process:
 
   - Forked secondary process not supported.